Word: musters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Despite the title, Queen Elizabeth appears but fitfully in the text?surrounded by a muster roll of courtiers with the subsequently decapitated Essex at the head. The reader is inclined to "retch" at the Queen's paint-plastered face, stinking breath and blackened teeth?since he is never made to feel the rich tide of power that swelled in Bess...
...certain that the Crimson 1929 swordsmen will be able to muster its full strength against Yale on account of the recent illness of most of the substitutes and one of the regulars...
Professors are, after all, rather idiotic. They straddle the twin steeds, scholarship and teaching, with what grace they can muster; they balance the exactions of rent and food with the pittances of Maccenas and the endowments of his kind--and they have to attend their own nine o'clock. Yet despite all these hardships they repeatedly assert that they like their calling, find it fascinating. "Idiots", insists the busy world. But the busy world knows only a small part of this idiocy, appreciates it in a most trivial...
Throughout the week Mr. Meighen and all but one* of the 116 Conservatives loudly called attention to the fact that, as the result of Canada's recent "freak election" (TIME, Nov. 9), Premier King can muster only 101 Liberals, thus leaving the Government, theoretically, without a majority. The Liberals, on the other hand, put on a bold and blustering front, intended to give the impression that they were sure of being supported by the 27 minority party members: 24 Progressives, 2 Laborites, and 1 Independent, that fire-eating gaffer, the Hon. Henri Bourassa of Quebec, now again returned to Parliament...
Yesterday, Law 3 came into a triple tie with Arts and Sciences and Law 2 oy defeating the former by the close margin of one point, 28-27 in a fiercely wages contest Business 2 forfeited to Business 1 because the second year men were unable to muster a full quintet...